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One way to have some fun is to play board games, such as Backgamon. Backgammon has been around for many years, and many different people have been playing the game.  Backgammon history is not known by many people, however it is an interesting piece of information to look into.  If you are a big player of the game, backgammon history may be a story you want to hear about.

Backgammon is the oldest game ever played.  Back in this time a group of people called the Sumerians lived in this area and they were known for some cultural creations like the wheel and math system. Scientists found proof of this many, many years later and figured out they were playing backgammon.  Backgammon was found to be played by nobles and the royal party.  However now and maybe even then, all cultures and all classes of society play game.

The Egyptians and the Romans played the game, however, they had different names for it.  In the early societies, the game of backgammon was banned.  It is interesting to think about today, that a board game was once outlawed in a society.  In the late 60’s, the game of backgammon became very popular.  Everyone seemed to take an interest in the game and they were playing in living rooms across the globe.

If you have access to the Internet, then you can play backgammon with the click of a mouse.  There are many versions of the game offered online and you can play alone in the privacy of your own home or at the office while taking lunch and why not to try the tournament, it sounds like great fun

Angelina Jolie, partner to Brad Pitt, is the star of several blockbuster movies. During the shooting of the first Tomb Raider movie, much of which was shot on location in Cambodia, Jolie came to witness the beautiful environment, immersive culture, and rampant poverty of the nation.

After Cambodia, Anglina Jolie took a trip to Sierra Leone and Tanzania in 2001, The purpose of that fateful trip was to discover first hand the conditions that refugees must suffer. The UNHCR assists over 20 million refugees in 120 countries around the world. They were created to protect and safeguard the well-being and rights of refugees. They believe that refugees have a right to seek asylum in another country and will actively seek to engage nations to integrate and support those refugees.

Angelina’s contribution has greatly assisted in generating more widespread attention to this worthy cause. Though in Jolie’s case this is not merely superficial. To further increase public awareness, Jolie has released several personal journals of her experiences during field visits.

As well as the physical effort that Jolie contributes, her foundation with partner Brad Pitt, called the Jolie-Pitt Foundation recently donated USD$1 million to groups working in Darfur. Darfur is a region in war ravaged Sudan, which Jolie has visited three times already.

Jolie has two adopted children, and is currently thinking of a third. Maddox, a cambodian refugee boy she adopted in 2002, and Zahara, an ethiopian refugee girl. She also has a child with Brad Pitt, named Shiloh.Together with Pitt, Jolie has stated that she will continue to promote and actively engage in humanitarian causes, as well as pursuing her acting ambitions.

There is no doubt that love for some celebrity exists within us all. The use of “love” is appropriate here as we who love celebrity tend to exhibit signs of undue influence by those highly visible. Famous people, the non-elected representatives of the human race, have always held some influence over the masses. In the days before mass media, television sets and computers fame was circulated orally, carried by the gossipy nature of social beings. We see in them the potential for perfection of man or woman as an expression of utopian ideals of love and success.

Our choice of clothes, jewelry and hairstyle, our languages and ideas are often areas that we look toward celebrities to define. Our culture has become saturated with celebrity influence. Today we have TomKat(Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes). Yesterday it was Bennifer(Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez).  Public Interest in these people is frighteningly obsessive in nature.

The entertainment value of a celebrity stretches beyond the screen or stage and they are wholly aware it. We are witness to carefully arranged relationships, sudden sightings in sports arenas and controversial quotes days before a new movie or show opens. Drugs, infidelity and physical assaults are a few areas where celebrities have slipped in their public presentation. Mug shots and unflattering photos of famous people are the currency of entertainment news outlets. Alas, the power of celebrity is here with us to stay